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Sitting Pretty [VHS]

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This is not a particularly well-known movie any more, but it is a great film worth buying and enjoying. Clifton Webb plays the prissy and effeminate Mr. Belvedere, a no-nonsense butler who moves into Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara's home to watch their bratty sons. Webb immediately instills discipline into the home and the boys end up adoring him, even if he is a martinet. The hilarious scenes he finds himself in... delicious!

Clifton Webb's comedic timing is underrated and the plot twists and ancillary characters will entertain and delight you throughout. This is one of the best sleepers from the 1940's and will have you laughing from beginning to end.

It is a farce/comedy. The story has mystery, romance and humor. What it lacks is the harshness of the movies today. A brief escape to a sweeter time. I love looking at the decor their home.Very enjoyable.

this is a wonderfully funny and entertaining movie.clifton webb is great as mr. belvedere. robert young and maureen o'hara were also terrific as the parents of the 3 boys. also if someone knows where i can get the 2 sequels on video mr. belvedere goes to college mr. belvedere rings the bell i would appreciate it very much.

First by today's standards Prim Proper 1950's era movie Sitting Pretty is like way way dated so buy this video with that fact firmly in mind. I number among those who love some of the older black and white movies. This movie is about a Nanny named Lynn Belvedere who sight unseen was assumed to be a proper woman governess for 3 active little 1950's era boy's.

This film occurs in the beginning of the golden heyday of post World War II 1950's Suburban Sprawl out of the city but still near the Beltway - America. A typical 50's suburban family complete with working father and housewife mom need a nanny for three boys who prove too much for any ordinary donestic. In comes Lynn Belvedere sight unseen and seemingly the perfect woman for the job that is until of course HE shows up!

Lynn Belvedere arrives a man who despite his self professed genius does not truly "LIKE" children. Lynn Belvedere understands children diving into their proper rearing with an good engineer's sense of goal oriented purpose. Misunderstood at first the children eventually come to love Lynn Belvedere and settle down. Lynn Belvedere soon works is way into becoming part of what makes the family function correctly and is accepted by the parents with loud encouragement from the kids, bird and dog! Lynn Belvedere cares for the children's health welfare and safety but love affection and such other matters are things he leaves to parents.

Lynn Belvedere has some pretty strange habits like standing on his head to acheive inner peace. Taking walks (constitutionals) to clear the mind. Chewing food a specific number of times to aid in proper digestion dictums he insists the children follow and they do even the baby tries to stand on his head in his crib.

Like any other 1950's suburban neighborhood this one was a regular Payton Place type hot bed of wagging tongues, shallow minds and idle gossip into which our family is soon enmeshed, NOT in a good way to say the least. Nosey neighbors and puritanical community morrays shared by town hipocrytes force a few innocent situations to a head as sharp tongued lamers put an unplesant and incorrect spin on nasty gossip spread aboout inappropriate goings on between Lynn Belvedere Nanny and the lady of the house.

However Lynn Belvedere self professed Genius is not one to be out done as he blows the lid off the quaint peaceful polite society by writing a Tell ALL Book about the towers of moral rectitude in the town as he shares in accurate detail each of their personal failings. In Lynn Belvedere's book he chonicles the real trueful shameful goings on in the town and even though names were changed everyone knows the character in the book modeled after them. Lynn Belvedere's book about his experiences and findings regards the goings on in the small town becomes a hit and the fun goes on from there.

Sitting Pretty really does need to be released as a DVD because it is totally awesome for fans of movies of this era. This is a harmless movie that just makes you laugh. This movie is not great film but it is a nice helpful tonic for a rainy day when you just want easy laughs while you emerse yourself in a bygone 1950's age that never really was the Norman Rockwell, Suburban Utopia depicted here. This movie is cheap innocent fun and to me that makes it worth a five star rating.

This is a delightful little farce about turning the tables on the local busybodies and bullies.

This is a great classic comedy! Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara are a suburban couple looking for a live-in babysitter to help take care of their three rambunctious boys. They engage a sitter named "Lynn" Belvedere and imagine their surprise when "she" turns out to be a "he"! Better yet, he's a great one! The movie has some very funny moments, a classic one being where Mr. Belvedere dumps a bowl of oatmeal over the baby's head after the baby throws food at him. Also, a funny little subplot about a nosy neighbor who suspects that Mr. Belvedere and Maureen O'Hara are having an improper relationship! Just a very good movie that will make you laugh!

I would buy at least one copy if Sitting Pretty were available on DVD.
I will NOT buy VHS any more.

This is one really good picture-it should be on DVD hope it will
be soon. An excellent tale of morality and good manners imbued with tons of laughs that are absolutely hilarious - even more so
in today's world...

I ENJOY VIEWING OLD MOVIES. THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR WAS ON MY MIND. I COULD NOT FIND IT IN ANY OF THE LOCAL LIBRARIES SO I WENT TO AMAZON.COM.
CLIFTON WEBB IS SUPERB IN THIS MOVIE ALONGSIDE MAUREEN O'HARA. GOOD OLD FASHIONED STORY.

BY THE WAY, YOUR SERVICE IS TO BE COMMENDED FOR NOT CHARGING MY CREDIT CARD UNTIL THE ORDER WAS SHIPPED.

SINCERELY,

SPM

Wonderful, refreshing, definitely needs to be on DVD! I've been looking for it for years, but had forgotten the name. I had thought it was Mr. Belvedere. Clifton Webb, I believe has been much under-rated. I've enjoyed each of his movies. This is on par with "Laura", but as a comedy.